This post feels like it suffers from a less than ideal translation, however I found the concept of 'acdemic ethnocentrism' useful and worth sharing. The idea is that university culture, rather than being based on the relationship between the student and the professor, is increasingly based around the interests and needs of the latter - the academic. Worse, this is giving way to a type of 'administrative ethnocentrism', where the culture and priorities of the institution are centred around the needs of the managers. "Today it is planned based on the academic body, more corporatism than academic. The physical spaces, the remuneration systems, the study programs, the structures, the organization of time, and other dimensions of university life respond preferably to the needs of the teacher and the administrator but not necessarily to those of the university's teaching or administration."
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